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That's fascinating about having a different register for different languages.
I guess being a man, if I wanted to speak Japanese, I might go for Gendo Ikari's voice, which is lower than my usual voice. If someone pointed this out, would I switch to Shinji Ikari's voice? His is way higher. Hm. Maybe Mamoru Chiba's voice would be a better match.
So, after poking around, listening to a few different male Japanese voice actors...
I am actually fairly close to the pitch register of Tetsu Inada, when speaking in Japanese.
Particularly Dialogue 2, very uh, enthusiastic, energetic, angry, snarky?, from this following clip... yeah that's pretty darn close to how 'karateka' me sounds:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=eQHzG4dG5SA
Which... is confusing to me, because like... Steve Blum has roughly that same kind of baritone in English.. as what I think I'm hearing from Inada in Japanese... but normally, casually speaking English... well I do have about the same amount of fry and gravely-ness, but maybe half to a full octave higher.
Anyway, I would never under any circumstances recommend speaking with Shinji's voice; he's kind of the most famous mentally unstable, pathetic bitch boy in all of anime?
Like, originally, he's literally voiced by a woman, in Japanese, Megumi Ogata.
Unless you are going for teenage angst, no, no, never be Shinji.
Gendo... Gendo's original Japanese voice actor is actually also fairly close to my Japanese speaking voice, though maybe a bit too deep, a bit too... smooth, roomy, sustained, whatever the opposite of fry-y and gravelly is.
Uh, Mamoru Chiba, Tuxedo Mask?
His Japanese voice actor, Kenji Nojima, yeah he's a good middle ground I'd say, more baritone than bass.